Brian Laird on WNYC, did you solve wordal today yet?

Hmm, solve, five-letter word.

That would be an appropriate wordal word. But no spoilers. Did you know that

solving wordle today lets you join the celebration. The New York Times has put together marking the

1,000th wordal puzzle. So let's play along and have some wordal fun with wordal editor Tracy Bennett,

who joins me now. Hi, Tracy. Welcome to WNYC. Hi, Brian. Thank you for having me.

And listeners, are you a wordler? If so, these questions will make sense. Is your streak

1,000 games long? That means getting the five-letter word right in no more than six tries.

Do you have a first word that you always use,

or do you mix it up? Do you have a hack to make it easier or even harder? If you want to share

or have a question for Tracy Bennett about Wordle, call or text us at 212-433, WNYC, 212, 433, 9692. So, Tracy, 1,000 mortals. Is that since the Times

acquired the game or since it was invented? Since it was invented, the Times acquired the game

in October, and 105 words had run before then. So if you have a streak in the

900s, you're basically at the 1,000. Right. And 1,000, not quite three years, if it's one a day,

right? Right, right. And so for those who've been living under Iraq and don't play themselves

or whose friends aren't posting their wordal solutions

on their social media. Can you give people a very succinct intro to the game?

Absolutely. So you have six chances to guess a five-letter word, and every guess that you make,

you get to see which letters are in the word and which ones are in the word and in the right place.

So if you get a green letter, that's in the right place.

If it's yellow, you're going to have to move it to a different part of the word.

And there's a keyboard below that tells you what you've already guessed so that you can keep trying to find the word.

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